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Cy Twombly

American, 1928–2011

Although his work resonates strongly with generations of younger artists, ranging from Brice Marden to Richard Prince to Tacita Dean to Patti Smith, it has a general propensity to polarise its audience between perplexity and unbridled admiration. (Remember the incident in summer 2007 of a woman planting a lipstick kiss on a Twombly canvas on show in Lyon?) Additionally, the critical and historical reception has seemed to describe two Twomblys – one about form, the other about content.

Some writers have concentrated on the materiality of the artist’s mark as aggressive, often illegible graffiti; others have followed the classical allusions to ferret out the references. Two elements might serve as metaphors for the predominant interpretations: the floating disc of white paint labelled “clouds” standing for the poetic and mythological aspects, and the scatological heap of brown paint designating “earth”. However, Twombly’s painterly palimpsests trace the progressions through which form and content, text and image are inextricably linked.

Cy Twombly emerged in the 1950s, developing a characteristic painting style of expressive drips and active, scribbled, and scratched lines. “My line is childlike but not childish,” he once said. “It is very difficult to fake…to get that quality you need to project yourself into the child's line. It has to be felt.”

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Untitled (A Gathering of Time) by Cy Twombly. Artwork Type: Painting; Medium: Oil on canvas;
The relationship between the late and New York's Gagosian Gallery dates back to the 1980s, resulting in numerous exhibitions of the artist's works at the gallery throughout the years. Although he died in 2011, his art will live on.
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Poet Singing Beautifully 2016 Cardboard intaglio on Hahnemuhle antique white paper 61 4/5 × 44 9/10 in 157 × 114 cm
Long, Very Long in the Tooth, 2016 Woodcut with collage and hand painting 67 1/10 × 49 2/5 in 170.5 × 125.5 cm

Although often associated with both Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism, Jim Dine did not identify with a specific movement, producing a vast oeuvre of paintings, drawings, works on paper, sculpture, poetry, and performances. Emerging as a pioneer (together with Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, and Robert Whitman) of New York’s Happenings of the 1960s, Dine would carry the spontaneous energy of this movement throughout his style, which emphasized the exploration of everyday life. Personally significant objects were Dine’s primary motifs, as in his iconic series of hearts and robes. He championed a return to figuration after a period of more concept-dominated works, and is considered an important figure in Neo-Dada and a forerunner of Neo-Expressionism. “The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it’s charged with and how much subject matter is there,” he once said.

American, b. 1935, Cincinnati, Ohio, based in New York, Paris and Walla Walla, Washington

Images: Photo Peter White

13 May 2016 - 30 Jul 2016

An exhibition of new prints by Antony Gormley, one of Britain’s most widely acclaimed artists, will be unveiled from 13 May - 30 July 2016. Marking his first project and exhibition with the Alan Cristea Gallery, Antony Gormley has made a series of works that consider how our physical freedom and imaginative potential is increasingly conditioned by the built environment.

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5 Oct 2016 - 18 Nov 2016

The first major survey of prints by Sir Howard Hodgkin (b. 1932), one of Britain's most celebrated living artists, will inaugurate Alan Cristea Gallery's new premises in Pall Mall on 5 October 2016. The exhibition 'After All', on display from 5 October - 18 November 2016, is also the title of a new series of prints by Hodgkin which will be shown alongside the best examples of Hodgkin's printmaking from across five decades.

© Alan Cristea

Vicken Parsons: Iris

24 Nov 2016 - 7 Jan 2017

24 Nov 2016 - 7 Jan 2017

Alan Cristea Gallery is proud to present the largest exhibition of paintings by Vicken Parsons to date. It will be unveiled on 24 November 2016 and run until 7 January 2017 and is our second solo exhibition with the artist.

From a kiln in the woods of upstate New York, Tim Rowan sculpts geode-like ceramic vessels that are both dense and curvilinear. His apprenticeship to Japanese artist Ryuichi Kazurezaki instilled a deep respect for traditional Japanese design, evident in the firing and flame markings of his work.